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Originally Posted by Halk
Something I picked up myself (I'm sure I won't be the first!) is that the device will not charge unless it does a USB handshake. In other words those handy little wall plugs that have a USB port on them don't seem to work for me, I have to plug it into a PC - or use a proper wall charger. I would like it if someone could confirm that for me. I have a mobile phone that does the same thing, and the only workaround is to use a USB cable that just has power on it, no data, no idea if that'd work on the reader.
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I got my 600 reader last October and ran into the same problem. It appeared to charge, but completed in about 5 minutes. The discharge was equally fast. So I wrote to Sony. They confirmed that a USB wall charger will not work to charge the reader. They promised to forward my concern to their engineers. They offered no explanation as to why the reader was designed that way. I don't understand why the reader could not have been designed to charge from any 5 volt USB socket and still open the Reader Library software automatically when plugged into a a fully functional USB port. I use an inexpensive USB wall charger to charge my iPod, yet iTunes works just fine when I plug it into my computer. Why is the reader so fussy?
Dave W